Unravelling the Different Stages of Love in Your Relationship

Thoughts of love and the partner of your dreams occupy a very large part of your life whether you have a partner or not. In effect, you are always in love because you keep thinking about it most of the time.  

Of course, this state of mind can vary by degrees depending on the individual but just about everybody experiences it for a certain length of time in his/her life.  

That's understandable because most folks perceive the success or failure of their lives on the basis of how their love lives have gone.  

Here is a look at where and how love begins and how it goes on to evolve through different stages.  

Coping with the unbridled passion of physical love   

This stage begins quite early in late adolescence and grows through the turbulent teens before entering the millennial stage when you actually begin to identify the partner of your dreams.  

At this stage, nothing but physical looks matter and that is quite normal. There are some millennials though, who have better balance of their minds and are able to take the marital decisions even at this young age.  

For most others, it is nothing more than to check out the various dimensions of love especially physical intimacy. They tend to overlook anything negative about their partner at this stage.  

Such a relationship stronger and healthier is driven mainly by unbridled physical passion along with the outer appearances of the respective partners and how they perceive each other.  

Taking the plunge into serious marital relationship  

This is when you have crossed the passion-driven stage of love with all its fun and intensity. You and your partner seem to agree on most things and are ready to dedicate yourselves to each other ‘Till death does you part.’  

Both of you are charged up to take up the challenge of building your careers and raising a family. The passion and intensity of a physical relationship is not the main driver of your relationship anymore.  

Both of you start looking at each other's inner beauty and are not obsessed with merely outer looks and physical attractions. Your lives are blending into one and your family becomes your biggest priority.   

The first signs of discontentment begin to appear  

Some folks try to draw an analogy of marital discord with things not going as planned in a joint-venture business project.  

Marital discord is a different ballgame altogether because a whole lot of emotions and expectations are tied up to such a relationship stronger and healthier.  

As the challenges of raising a family and progressing in your career begin to overlap, both parents start committing mistakes and start blaming each other.  

However, this phase of your love life is considered normal and is something you must ride out to make your marriage successful.  

Cruising across all forms of turbulence and storms  

If and when you and your partner come out of the discontentment and the subsequent fault lines that appeared in your relationship full of love as a result of that, you will experience amazing tranquility in your married life.  

At this point both of you would be settled in your respective professions and the kids are growing up fast.  

You are no longer worried about the mid-life crises that affect some folks at this stage of your lives.  

The confidence in the relationship full of love you have built up with your partner is almost bullet-proof now. You are ready to ride the rough seas ahead together.